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Robert Hurst is the author of The Art of [Urban] Cycling, Road Biking Colorado, Hiking Through History Colorado, The Art of Mountain Biking: Singletrack Skills for All Riders, The Cyclist’s Manifesto, Best Easy Bike Rides Denver, Best Bike Rides Denver and Boulder, Road Biking Colorado’s Front Range, Mountain Biking Colorado’s San Juan Mountains: Durango and Telluride, and The Bicycle Commuter’s Handbook.
robert @ industrializedcyclist . com
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When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man’s moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it?
Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?
-- Twain
The Bicycle Commuter’s Handbook by Robert Hurst
No, not Congress.
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service this month said that Keystone’s proposed route across Nebraska put the endangered American burying beetle at risk. The agency said the black and orange-spotted insect could be spared, and the project move forward, if proper procedure is followed.
That means pipeline builder TransCanada Corp. (TRP) will have to trap and relocate the one-inch beetles, using frozen rats that have thawed for at least three days for maximum pungency, according to detailed protocols U.S. authorities have drawn up to protect the burrowing bug.
via Beetle-Bedeviled Keystone XL Needs Dead Rats to Let It Be – Bloomberg.
Rats are much maligned.
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